What are the penguins doing in Christmas? That was the question that children between 5 and 12 year olds tried to answer during Christmas hollydays at the Museum of Science of the University of Coimbra in Portugal. With the young polar scientist José Xavier, an APECS council and APECS member, just arriving from Antarctica where he studied penguins and albatrosses, nothing could be better.

The morning and afternoon sessions combined good fun talks on the biology of penguins along with hands-on activities on how penguins survive such extreme environments, how climate change is affecting them, and what can we do to help them...of course, everyone also wants to know what most penguins are doing in Christmas...breeding!!!!!

A huge success activity from APECS PORTUGAL, where polar science and education and outreach are intimately linked...